WordPress Core < 4.0.1 - Denial of Service via Long Password

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2014-9034
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 20, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Javier Nieto Arevalo, Andres Rojas Guerrero
Description

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.7
  • 3.7 - 3.7.4
  • 3.8 - 3.8.4
  • 3.9 - 3.9.2
  • 4.0 - 4.0
Patched Version
  • 3.7.5
  • 3.8.5
  • 3.9.3
  • 4.0.1
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